We had breakfast at Northern Lights on Saturday. And while there Cena asked if she could write on the board outside a quote that Kelly had said to us while bringing us bacon.
Don bought some bacon salt before heading back to Ketchikan. The price went up $1.50 since we noticed it on Tuesday. I knew I should have stocked up.
While wandering through the grocery store this evening with Don (he arrived two days early) and talking to Ryan Welde he spotted Bacon Salt. Awesome!
While I Seattle I went to Jack in the Box and had one of their Bacon Ultimate Cheeseburger. Interesting that they don’t call it an Ultimate Bacon Cheeseburger. They follow the baconaholic rule where any food with “bacon” in the name needs to start with that word. Think about it. Bacon Lettuce Tomato. Bacon cheeseburger. Bacon ice cream.
I spent some time collecting stuff from the internet for my bacon appreciation website. I also changed some of the site colors and images so that it is a bit more bacony. Just a bit. A bacon bit.
Heather Canik brought me a tin of Bacon Mints that she bought for me in Seattle at Archie McPhee. Yes, bacon and mint. All it takes is one whiff and you know that this flavor combination will only torture those buds on your tongue. But i love bacon. And i like mint too. More importantly, i have not written about bacon in a while.
There are supposed to be 100 mints in the tin. I didn’t bother counting. Actually, after tasting them there could be about 5 in there and i think you would probably have enough. One for you and four for you to con friends into trying. If someone can combine bacon and mint then maybe there is a market for a bacon milkshake or bacon toothpaste.
It is impossible to describe the flavor without using the style of newspapers doing a review of a movie. “A minty burst of bacon freshness!” “One big thumb up and a major gag reflex!” “Even pigs would love these!”
The tin is nice and once i empty it i will keep it. (I will eat them all actually. It will just take me a while to forget their taste before trying them again.) There isn’t much else to say about Uncle Oinker’s Bacon Mints.
On Instructables there is a tutorial of how to extract your own perfume oils from plants. Naturally i started imagining novelty cologne and perfume scents.
- Bacon
- Cedar (red and yellow varieties)
- Fresh cut lawn
- Clothes dryer exhaust (that’s Cena’s)
I tried to be realistic – only things that actually might be possible to extract make the list. Any suggestions?
While out of town last week i only had fast food twice. Both times were at Burger King and both times my order was a hassle. At the first place one of the items on my order was a chicken chicken sandwich with only mustard, cheese, and bacon. When i unwrapped it there was mayo and lettuce (the most disgusting lettuce i have ever seen) on the sandwich. It was printed correctly on my receipt but the kitchen had messed it up. I returned it and ended up with what i wanted. The second time i asked for the same item and the lady at the register spent forever trying to find the buttons and get my order right.
While shoveling the driveway the other day i was thinking about “have it your way” as the slogan for Burger King. With today’s technology i was thinking that people could set up a profile online that lists exactly the way people like their food. In my case it would be the chicken sandwich with mustard, bacon and cheese along with a double BK Stacker meal without the sauce on the sandwich. Once my preferences have been set then they mail me a key fob with a passive RFID embedded with my personal ID number. I could then walk up to a special register, wave my tag at the register and it would ring me up – perhaps even billing my credit card or deducting money from my checking account. There would then be one less human making errors on my order. The cooks can still mess things up but the cashier just has to pass me my change if i pay with cash and ask if i’m eating in the restaurant or having take out.
We have this system in place for travelers of toll roads with the Easy Pass system. Why not for fast food or even vending machines?
It has been a long time since i mentioned that i have a few designs on Cafepress and every now and then a check arrives to remind me of it. To date the sales on Cafe press have brought me over $177. Not bad for a maximum markup of only a few dollars and no effort on my part to promote the items. My most popular line? Mmm… Bacon!
One of my many bacon-themed gifts for Christmas was a bacon air freshener. Now that I’ve used it for a few weeks i thought other bacon lovers that might be contemplating pimping their ride with a piece of scented cardboard might want a review. This thing stinks. Not strongly – if you’re imagining the smell of bacon being cooked on a sleepy Sunday morning you just go ahead and keep imagining that. Bacon Scientists have given us bacon bits, low-sodium bacon, and even pre-cooked bacon that doesn’t need refrigeration (until opened) but they have not perfected the delicate balance of smoky-greasy-yumminess that cooking bacon releases. I found that letting my car sit for a few days without the door opening helps the faint bacon smell build up but even then the scent is at best reminiscent of bacon. (Reminiscent! Recursion!) In summary – any bacon related gift makes the perfect stocking stuffer but sometimes the perfect stocking stuffer does not make the perfect car air freshener.
